India, Aug. 14 -- Although one of the most underrated and overlooked technical parameters, volume is one of the most important metric an investor must get a grip of while predicting stock price movements. As with most indicators, volume, too, works with them and it is crucial to know what volume is, why it is important in stocks and how best it can be used.
Volume basically is the total number of buyers and sellers exchanging shares over a particular period of time, usually a day. When the volume is high, traders are interested in dealing in that particular share and vice versa . Data on volume of a share is readily available on charts or the trading screen. If volume of the stock for the day was 10,00,000 shares, it means that amount of s...